Create maps quickly

quick_map() allows the creation of maps quickly using {ggplot2}. For this reason, the resulting map is fully editable through {ggplot2} layers.

quick_map(region = NULL, type = NULL)

Arguments

region

character string or atomic vector containing countries names ou continents. Default is NULL.

type

character string informing map type. Can be "sf" or "ggplot". Default is NULL, which plots the whole world when region is also NULL and uses "sf" otherwise.

Value

a ggplot object

Acknowledgment

quick_map() depends heavily on the data available by the {rnaturalearth} package. In this sense, quick_map() uses a wide and dirty filtering of this data to create the map.

See also

Other geo-tools: fix_invalid_geometries(), intersect_filter_touch(), intersect_mask_filter_area(), remove_geom_holes(), view_mapview_from_path()

Examples

# \donttest{
if (interactive()) {
  # plot a world map
  quick_map()
  # plot a new world map
  quick_map(region = "Americas", type = "sf")
  # using ggplot
  quick_map(region = "Americas", type = "ggplot")
  # edit using ggplot2 layers
  quick_map() +
    ggplot2::theme_void() +
    ggplot2::geom_sf(fill = "white")
}
# }